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For anyone who is a fan of collecting Street Fighter themed memorabilia, you’ve got another set of figures to add to your list. Kid Robot has launched a new line of Street Fighter figures, including a 7″ Hot Ryu, a 7″ Akuma and a blind box mini series for all of the original cast of Street Fighter V.

The Hot Ryu and Akuma figures are self explanatory while the blind box series has collectors receiving a random World Warrior when you open up a box. You can buy a pack of 20 in one go to increase you chances of getting that rare Karin or R. Mika figure but with each figure being $9.99 a pop, it’s quite a costly investment to get the whole set. As mentioned, there are no DLC characters like Urien or Guile in this series, it’s just the original 16 fighters from the vanilla version of Street Fighter V. The Hot Ryu and Akuma figures cost $49.99 and would act as a decent stocking stuffer for any fighting game fan this Christmas.

You can purchase the figures over on Kidrobot’s website and check out the gallery below to have a quick glance at the figures before you consider clicking “Add to Basket.”

Source: Kidrobot

King of Fighters XIV has been out for nearly two months now on PS4. It released in North America, Europe and Japan at the same time, so there wasn’t really an instance of some people getting to play it for months ahead of other gamers. However, a large portion of the Japanese community has not engaged with KOFXIV, as there has been no official arcade release of the SNK title. Fortunately, it’s just been announced that King of Fighters XIV turning up as a launch title for the NESiCAxLive 2 cabinet, allowing arcade goers a chance to learn the ins and outs of KOFXIV.

More information looks to be coming sometime between Feb 10th and 12th, in 2017, at JAEPO.

Source: Gato Ray

One of the most interesting fighting game spin offs of the last console generation was Atlus and Arc System Works’ Persona 4 Arena series. The series combined characters and concepts from Atlus’s Persona 4 and Persona 3 role-playing games into a unique and easy to pick up fighter that fans of both genres could enjoy.

Now, with a new installment in the franchise, Persona 5, now out in Japan, some may wonder if this game would be getting a fighting game spin off as well. Well if turns out that the Persona 4 Arena series director Kazuhisa Wada  would very much like to make a Persona 5 Arena.

During the medal ceremony for the Persona 4 Arena Ultimax at this weekend’s Toushinsai 2016, Wada stated “I definitely want to make it happen”. He also encouraged fans to speak out in support saying that “I’d appreciate it if everyone made their voices heard and sent their requests in regards to this.”

You can see Wada talking about the possibility of making Persona 5 at Toushinsai in the video below from Persona Central.

Source: Persona Central

As the Guilty Gear community was hyping up for the Toushinsai tournament, an unexpected image had the players bristling with anticipation.

Ether this is a really convincing fake or Baiken is joining Xrd Revelator soon. pic.twitter.com/egt8XFPcUf

— Charit (@ChariotDaGawd) October 14, 2016

The images feature Baiken, a samurai who appears in the Guilty Gear series and returns in Xrd -REVELATOR-‘s story mode. With the Toushinsai tournament in progress and the iconic Tatami screenshot circulating online, it seemed like her announcement was imminent. Or was it?

While the community at large started pouring out either love or hate for the thought of a guard-cancel character with YRCs and Tatami mat spam, Twitter user KantaKun owned up to the prank:

Well this was fun. @ArcSystemWorksU I hope you guys saw the excitement. Sorry #GGXrdR , maybe in -FINALIZER- ( @notBaf0 ) pic.twitter.com/ZPghHqfGQ9

— Garuda@GG (@KantaKun) October 15, 2016

KantaKun’s admittedly impressive Photoshop skills have been used in fake character reveals before, he told SRK, when he spoofed screens for Karin in Street Fighter IV and Vergil in the original Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

“I did it because I love the character, really, and I’ve been expecting her return to Xrd,” he explained. “Also, this isn’t the first time I’ve done something like this, so I knew I could get the community to react.”

Following that tweet, he also wrote:

@ArcSystemWorksU Also while I (might) have your attention, bring us Revelator on Steam, please.

— Garuda@GG (@KantaKun) October 15, 2016

Either way, this elaborate prank is a good lesson to sometimes wait for official confirmation. Meanwhile, some of us have to wait for Baiken an undefined amount of time *shakes fist*.

Sources: @KantaKun; @ChariotDaGawd

Usually relegated to a side event at majors and nationals, team tournaments rarely get their own dedicated events. However, the UK seems to buck this trend, with Rival Scenes 2016 promising a weekend of teams action across multiple fighting games. Hosted by Sunday Face Off, this tournament will have teams from all around the country assembling to prove themselves and crush enemy regions. Expect groups like Birmingham’s Electronic Dojo and Manchester Battle Arena to be making an appearance, alongside several other teams from all parts of the British Isles.

The event will be held at DoubleTree, located next to the Hilton in Leeds City Centre and registration is now available over on the dedicated smash.gg page. The venue fee is £15, with it costing £5 to enter each tournament game. Saturday will see teams facing off in Killer Instinct 2v2s, Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR- 3v3s and The King of Fighters XIV 3v3s, with Sunday being dedicated to purely Street Fighter with Street Fighter V 5v5s, 3rd Strike 3v3s and Super Street Fighter II Turbo 3v3s. There will also be a 2v2 mystery tournament running across both days and will be strictly first-come first-serve, so get there quick on the page if you wish to sign up. If you can’t attend this tournament, all the action will be streamed over on the Sunday Face Off Twitch channel.

Trailer for Leeds fighting games tournament this 5th-6th November. Dont miss out the hype and register now at https://t.co/8qw3Ytuy8e pic.twitter.com/ecmxa3sptg

— Sunday Face Off (@SundayFaceOff) October 14, 2016

Sources: Sunday Face Off (Twitter); smash.gg

“Super Street Fighter Carnival” is the regularly occurring tournament series of Japan’s famous Mikado Arcade. The series cherishes arcade titles of old, bringing out high level play for a wide variety of vintage games. SSFC2016 is the current tournament season, scheduled to go from 10/11 to 12/16. It’s previous season, SSFC7, was covered here.

If you know a little Japanese (or, if you want to play everyone’s favorite game: deciphering google translations), you can preview this seasons’ games and player scores with Mikado’s public Drive document. Two events have already completed: The King of Fighters ’95 and Samurai Showdown 3.

 

You can follow the action by subscribing to Mikado’s official YouTube channel. For the night owls in the US, you can even try to catch them when they livestream.

Source: Mikado